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and cut the deficit. mitt romney's plan? a new 250,000 dollar tax break for... multi-millionaires. roll back regulations on the banks that cratered the economy. and raise taxes on the middle class. president clinton: they want to go back to the same old... policies that got us in trouble in the first place. president obama: we're not going back, we are moving forward. anncr: forward. since ameriprise financial was founded back in 1894, they've been committed to putting clients first. helping generations through tough times. good times. never taking a bailout. there when you need them. helping millions of americans over the centuries. the strength of a global financial leader. the heart of a one-to-one relationship. together for your future. ♪ >>> have you ever tried working from home when you haveless kids in the house? mom, i want a snack, he is hitting me. you can't. it's so hard, and that's why co-working spaces, places you can go and rent office space for a while works so well, and now word in austin from our producer job ruben that you can bring your kids. not kidding. have
and cut the deficit. mitt romney's plan? a new 250,000 dollar tax break for... multi-millionaires. roll back regulations on the banks that cratered the economy. and raise taxes on the middle class. president clinton: they want to go back to the same old... policies that got us in trouble in the first place. president obama: we're not going back, we are moving forward. anncr: forward. since ameriprise financial was founded back in 1894, they've been committed to putting clients first. helping...
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but president obama won despite the huge deficit, there is a clear sense there, reflecting the ideas of what is the soci socially liberated whites, there is a clear challenge there. >> did it surprise you? >> no, i think it continued, as john king pointed out, many of the issues on the congressional politics are difficult. what the president is doing is identifying a kind of -- solidifying the properties of the coalition that approved the majority in five of the past six presidential elections. there is a risk for republicans, here, too. if they block the president's initiatives, they kind of deepen the problem. >> what about comprehensive, immigration reform, gay marriage? how difficult will those be? >> look, the coalitions are very similar, the groups that support him, the regions that support him are very similar. the one that he has the best prospects, immigration reform, after this last election, there are enough republicans, jeb bush, who see value for the party in trying to settle it. on things like climate and guns it will be much harder to bring along republicans. but there
but president obama won despite the huge deficit, there is a clear sense there, reflecting the ideas of what is the soci socially liberated whites, there is a clear challenge there. >> did it surprise you? >> no, i think it continued, as john king pointed out, many of the issues on the congressional politics are difficult. what the president is doing is identifying a kind of -- solidifying the properties of the coalition that approved the majority in five of the past six...
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. >>> just ahead, mitt romney claims his tax plan will cut rates without ballooning the deficit. a bipartisan study found out that the math doesn't work? we'll take a look at that. 0ñ@ñfÑ >>> ahead of tomorrow's big presidential debate we are looking at mitt romney's tax plan and claims that it will cut rates without ballooning the deficit. it was a major subject on the sunday shows where romney advisers continued to defend it and no doubt it will be a topic tomorrow night. a bipartisan study found the math doesn't work, and other studies that the romney campaign counters with doesn't mesh shower up measure up as well. >> six different studies have said this is very questionable. some of them are blogs, some from the aei, an independent group. >> these are very credible sources. >> one of them is from a guy who is a blog from a guy who was a top advisor to george w. bush. these are hardly nonpartisan studies. >> that was top romney advisor ed gillespie. more on that in a moment, first, i want to begin at the beginning. with what romney has been promising. >> under no circumsta
. >>> just ahead, mitt romney claims his tax plan will cut rates without ballooning the deficit. a bipartisan study found out that the math doesn't work? we'll take a look at that. 0ñ@ñfÑ >>> ahead of tomorrow's big presidential debate we are looking at mitt romney's tax plan and claims that it will cut rates without ballooning the deficit. it was a major subject on the sunday shows where romney advisers continued to defend it and no doubt it will be a topic tomorrow night....
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and cut the deficit. mitt romney's plan? a new 250,000 dollar tax break for... multi-millionaires. roll back regulations on the banks that cratered the economy. and raise taxes on the middle class. president clinton: they want to go back to the same old... policies that got us in trouble in the first place. president obama: we're not going back, we are moving forward. anncr: forward. >>> at the beginning of his presidency barack obama traveled to cairo. his goal, he said, he was to try to bridge the gap between the u.s. and muslim world by building a relationship based on mutual respect. by 2011 uprisings known as the arab spring had spread around the middle east and northern africa, calling in a historic opportunity. president obama pledged stand with those seeking democracy. joining me now is cnn foreign affairs reporter ellise lavin. how has the president kind of lived township that, responded to the arab spring? >> well, fred, he really said it was a case by case in terms of individual countries, as you know. it kind of swept the arab world, but in every country it was a little
and cut the deficit. mitt romney's plan? a new 250,000 dollar tax break for... multi-millionaires. roll back regulations on the banks that cratered the economy. and raise taxes on the middle class. president clinton: they want to go back to the same old... policies that got us in trouble in the first place. president obama: we're not going back, we are moving forward. anncr: forward. >>> at the beginning of his presidency barack obama traveled to cairo. his goal, he said, he was to try...
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what mitt and i are proposing is a five-point plan -- >> there will be no tax cut that adds to the deficit but i do want to reduce the burden being paid by middle income americans. >> the combination of limiting deductions and credits and exemptions. >> you can cut tax rates by 20% and still preserve these important preferences for middle class taxpayers. it is mathematically possible. >> that's the promise. keeping them honest, though, neither he nor his running mate paul ryan have ever specified which tax deductions they will cap, which loopholes they will close or frankly give out many details at all. their campaign advisors didn't either, this weekend. despite that handicap, a bipartisan panel of three authors for the tax policy center examined the plan and concluded that there's really no way of making the numbers work, that is unless the middle class pays more. thousands of dollars more per family, according to the authors. the romney campaign called the study biased, and began saying that academic support of its own. take a look. >> the good news is that five different economic stud
what mitt and i are proposing is a five-point plan -- >> there will be no tax cut that adds to the deficit but i do want to reduce the burden being paid by middle income americans. >> the combination of limiting deductions and credits and exemptions. >> you can cut tax rates by 20% and still preserve these important preferences for middle class taxpayers. it is mathematically possible. >> that's the promise. keeping them honest, though, neither he nor his running mate...
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the deal. >> it seemed the president had bridged the partisan divide and could count reining in the deficit as part of his legacy. but then in the final moments, the so-called grand bargain collapsed. >> i have offered ideas -- >> and finger-pointing began. >> not one time, not one time, did the administration ever put any plan on the table. >> it is hard to understand why speaker boehner would walk away from this kind of deal. >> for speaker boehner, the problem was a last request to alter the deal. >> i said, mr. president, you know i can't do this. we've been talking about this for months. i'm already as far out on a limb as i can get. you know this. why are you doing this? it's unfortunate. he basically blew up the deal. >> not true, says the white house. >> i think personally speaker boehner probably wanted to do something. he just couldn't control his caucus. >> but the speaker says his people were never the problem. >> i got into some tough negotiations with ted kennedy. he didn't flinch. he didn't back away from the deal. he went straight forward. that's courage. >> speaker boehner,
the deal. >> it seemed the president had bridged the partisan divide and could count reining in the deficit as part of his legacy. but then in the final moments, the so-called grand bargain collapsed. >> i have offered ideas -- >> and finger-pointing began. >> not one time, not one time, did the administration ever put any plan on the table. >> it is hard to understand why speaker boehner would walk away from this kind of deal. >> for speaker boehner, the...
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tonight, number two, the federal deficit. someone has made it his mission to promote fiscal responsibilities. david walker, the former comp controller general of the united states. we caught up with him on a bus tour through swing states with a group he founded, the comeback american initiative. here is what he told us. >> what keeps me up at night is the deteriorating financial condition of the cun tri, escalating deficits in debt and what it could mean to our future as a country and my grandchildren. >> is not an unsolvable problem. the greatest threat to america's future is not terrorism. it is not some country. it is our own fiscal irresponsibility. during the past five or so years, i have been to 49 states doing town hall meetings. what i've found is that the american people are actually a lot smarter than politicians realize. the united states is a great country but it is not exempt from the laws of prudent finance. you can't sfendpend a lot more y than you take in and charge it to the credit card and not expect to have
tonight, number two, the federal deficit. someone has made it his mission to promote fiscal responsibilities. david walker, the former comp controller general of the united states. we caught up with him on a bus tour through swing states with a group he founded, the comeback american initiative. here is what he told us. >> what keeps me up at night is the deteriorating financial condition of the cun tri, escalating deficits in debt and what it could mean to our future as a country and my...
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you don't want to get deficit reduction under way too fast because there's not enough energy in the economy, not enough private spending by companies and also by individuals to keep us going. >> grover norquist, i listen to george stephanopoulos earlier, quite interesting. he was actually not saying this has been a terrible time for mitt romney. he thinks the race is pretty wide open, the polls are still very close, and anything could happen. what does mitt romney need to do, though, from your point of view, you're a very influential figure in the party. what has he got to do to refocus, to regalvanize and to try and get the right message over now to win this election? >> well, he needs to keep saying what he has been saying and force the press to focus on that. for heaven's sakes, in the last couple of weeks, we've seen the entire bump that obama got disappear. the gallup poll has them neck and neck and the establishment press is having a conversation about whether romney's in trouble. it's obama's numbers that have been collapsing over the last two weeks. romney's doing just fine. he need
you don't want to get deficit reduction under way too fast because there's not enough energy in the economy, not enough private spending by companies and also by individuals to keep us going. >> grover norquist, i listen to george stephanopoulos earlier, quite interesting. he was actually not saying this has been a terrible time for mitt romney. he thinks the race is pretty wide open, the polls are still very close, and anything could happen. what does mitt romney need to do, though, from...
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it's essentially become the blueprint for republicans and how they're going to solve the deficit issue. so i think that's going to become front and center in the campaign, if it hasn't been already, because it speaks directly to what happens to president obama's health care law. john, i'd like to talk a little bit more about the economy. it's a huge issue around the world as europe struggles with more recession, maybe, maybe not. the u.s. is sort of one step up, one step back in terms of recovery. can you put in a nutshell for us how a romney-ryan ticket or even administration would handle the elements of the economy differently than president obama has? >> one of the things that were said was not only would they temporarily leave the bush tax cuts in line for now, they do not want to take them away. they want to go to a more sleeping tax reform. that means that he want to cut taxes more for the rich. they believe more of a trickle down approach, if you will. so that will be the defining issuings. how do you reform the tax code? look, we have an incumbent pthd. the democrats are going
it's essentially become the blueprint for republicans and how they're going to solve the deficit issue. so i think that's going to become front and center in the campaign, if it hasn't been already, because it speaks directly to what happens to president obama's health care law. john, i'd like to talk a little bit more about the economy. it's a huge issue around the world as europe struggles with more recession, maybe, maybe not. the u.s. is sort of one step up, one step back in terms of...
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he has -- mitt romney now has a foreign policy deficit. he bungled going to london at the time of the. >> larry: he is going to have a chance in one of the debates to focus completely on foreign policy. if i were the romney campaign, i would start surrounding him by some foreign policy adults. they have a great talent on the gop side of veterans like james baker, robert gates, people to consult and be seen with. they should be getting op eds out there about what romney foreign policy is. right now, it seems quite incoherent, except he is a hostage of the right wing. anybody obama does is wrong. he overstepped the bounds in my opinion when he the president seemed to be siding with the terrorists. >> are they expressing any regret with this? >> they are not. they believe they are being criticized for criticizing exactly the same thing that president obama ended up disavowing. what it makes it look like is that they are trying to pick a fight here with president obama on foreign policy. and that they were looking for something and this was ou
he has -- mitt romney now has a foreign policy deficit. he bungled going to london at the time of the. >> larry: he is going to have a chance in one of the debates to focus completely on foreign policy. if i were the romney campaign, i would start surrounding him by some foreign policy adults. they have a great talent on the gop side of veterans like james baker, robert gates, people to consult and be seen with. they should be getting op eds out there about what romney foreign policy is....
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if you're for more deficit reduction, you're for this agreement. >> earlier today i spoke with one of the architects of the deal. the chairman of the budget committee paul ryan. i asked how the two sides were able to find common ground and compromise. >> what's the secret allowing yourself more time to deal with each other? setting low expectations? never going on bed angry? what is it? >> all of those are pretty good pieces of advice. we decided from the outside, number one, to talk a lot. get to know each other. keep our emotions in check. the other thing was we wanted to make sure that we didn't demand or insist that the other person had to violate a core principle. we would instead look for where the common ground exists. we took our budgets. kind of overlamb them all and then looked through that prism to see where the common ground existed. then we looked to see where we could get common ground. add that up and see what that could do with respect to replacing the sequester. they're having an across the board approach. we think that's crude. we
if you're for more deficit reduction, you're for this agreement. >> earlier today i spoke with one of the architects of the deal. the chairman of the budget committee paul ryan. i asked how the two sides were able to find common ground and compromise. >> what's the secret allowing yourself more time to deal with each other? setting low expectations? never going on bed angry? what is it? >> all of those are pretty good pieces of advice. we decided from the outside, number one,...
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i tend to share dan's views on the deficit. the bond market doesn't care about the deficit. interest rates are extraordinarily low. as long as the bond market doesn't care about the deficit, doesn't keep me awake at night. so, no, i don't think fiscal austerity is the answer right now. i would say this, though. perhaps counter what dan said. there is plenty of blame to go around. >> yeah, tell me about the tea party angle. whenever i talk about fiscal cliff, i get a lot of mail from people who say why don't you say it like it really is? the tea party said we're going to oppose this president and that's why we're here. do you agree? >> yes. at the same time, i think both parties are xlos complicity in not getting much done. president obama advocated on this. he hasn't really taken a very forceful role especially on entitlement reform. i would like to see him get a little more involved and he should because his re-election would hinge on that. >> an election year, a fiscal cliff. i thought the debt ceiling debate was bad last year. i didn't know it could get worse. it has. dan
i tend to share dan's views on the deficit. the bond market doesn't care about the deficit. interest rates are extraordinarily low. as long as the bond market doesn't care about the deficit, doesn't keep me awake at night. so, no, i don't think fiscal austerity is the answer right now. i would say this, though. perhaps counter what dan said. there is plenty of blame to go around. >> yeah, tell me about the tea party angle. whenever i talk about fiscal cliff, i get a lot of mail from...
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taking a look at mitt romney's tax plan and his claim it will cut rates without ballooning the budget deficit. we are interested in it for two reasons tonight. it was a major subject on the sunday shows where romney advisors continued to defend it and no doubt it will be a big topic tomorrow night. keeping them honest a bipartisan study found the math doesn't work and other studies which the romney campaign counters with, they're coming under fire tonight as well. take a look. >> six different studies have said this is very questionable. some of them are blogs, some from the aei, an independent group. >> these are very credible sources. >> one of them is from a guy who is a blog from a guy who was a top advisor to george w. bush. these are hardly nonpartisan studies. >> that was top romney advisor ed gillespie. more on that in a moment, first, i want to begin at the beginning. with what romney has been promising. >> under no circumstances will i raise taxes on the middle class of america. we will keep our taxes down. >> what mitt and i are proposing is a five-point plan -- >> there will be no
taking a look at mitt romney's tax plan and his claim it will cut rates without ballooning the budget deficit. we are interested in it for two reasons tonight. it was a major subject on the sunday shows where romney advisors continued to defend it and no doubt it will be a big topic tomorrow night. keeping them honest a bipartisan study found the math doesn't work and other studies which the romney campaign counters with, they're coming under fire tonight as well. take a look. >> six...
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medicare/social security concerns were number three, last night we talked about number two, the federal deficit and the top concern, unemployment. with an 8.1% unemployment rate, 12.5 million people are out of work. it's the number one economic issue keeping people up at night. we spoke with the president of a group in connecticut who sees on a daily basis the toll long term of people out of work. >> what keeps me up at night is the thought that americans who are victims of the great recession will lose their job, will lose any opportunity to come back to the workforce and will be deprived of hope and opportunity in their lives. it's taken its toll on every sector of our economy and our employment structure. this has been a mean creature. it's not just taken folks out of those sectors and made them unemployable, it has put roadblocks into their finding any way of returning to that sector or to another. what platform to employment, my program, has tried to do, is open doors, simply give them a chance. it doesn't guarantee them anything, but it says if you come to the job and you can convince tha
medicare/social security concerns were number three, last night we talked about number two, the federal deficit and the top concern, unemployment. with an 8.1% unemployment rate, 12.5 million people are out of work. it's the number one economic issue keeping people up at night. we spoke with the president of a group in connecticut who sees on a daily basis the toll long term of people out of work. >> what keeps me up at night is the thought that americans who are victims of the great...
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behind obama he's got a 53-point deficit among hispanic women. so the very people that need a little bit of assistance but are more than willing to stand up on their own two feet, if given a fair shot, are the very people that he is offending by those outrageous comments. >> so margaret, i see you nodding. and clearly, look, these comments will be seized upon by democrats and by those who create ads. and they will be used. can the governor somehow get the message you have brought to this program and try to clarify what he meant if that is, in fact, what he meant and try to break through this noise? >> certainly -- i mean, i think this will -- has the potential to stick with him as much as the inartful comment that president obama made at a fund-raiser four years ago, made about the people in the midwest who have lost their jobs clinging to their guns and religion has stuck with them. this may be a question in the first debate. and i think the answer will rest with whether mitt romney is able to answer this question satisfactorily. i think the fun
behind obama he's got a 53-point deficit among hispanic women. so the very people that need a little bit of assistance but are more than willing to stand up on their own two feet, if given a fair shot, are the very people that he is offending by those outrageous comments. >> so margaret, i see you nodding. and clearly, look, these comments will be seized upon by democrats and by those who create ads. and they will be used. can the governor somehow get the message you have brought to this...
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it is to pay for additional deficit spending. which i, i agree with you, nobody says we can start balancing our budget immediately. but what republicans are saying is, if you're going to increase the debt burden on our children, at least start working with us to restrain the rate of growth in spending over the next few years so we can start bringing our budget into balance. so we don't totally mortgage our children's future. that's what this debate should be about. >> you are right, it should be about that. we're going to discuss it later in the show. the idea about why we don't have budgets, how we can fix that. senator, thanks for the time to talk to us, we hope we can talk to you more in coming weeks. >> have a great day. >> senator johnson is a republican from wisconsin. he is on the senate budget committee. the fiscal cliff nan senonsense fiscal cliff and the exploding debt. how did we get here? >> we haven't had one in almost four years. >> i could end the deficit in five minutes. >> how? >> you pass a law that says that an
it is to pay for additional deficit spending. which i, i agree with you, nobody says we can start balancing our budget immediately. but what republicans are saying is, if you're going to increase the debt burden on our children, at least start working with us to restrain the rate of growth in spending over the next few years so we can start bringing our budget into balance. so we don't totally mortgage our children's future. that's what this debate should be about. >> you are right, it...
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which is to agree on a plan that will save at least $4 trillion off deficits and debt over the next ten years. i'm actually pushing for $5 trillion, because i'd like to actually balance the budget. >> all right. senator, thank you very much. we are rooting for you to get this done and get it done right. he ended with a key number. he wants to cut $4 trillion. that's the same as simpson/bowles. simpson/bowles came around last time, didn't pass, debt ceiling crisis. it feels like a kick in the can. i know he doesn't want it to be. >> god bless, he's at least trying to do the hard work and he's someone who has been fighting this fight for a long time. and sure, there are going to be people who say, look, this will buy us a little bit of time, we can move the fiscal cliff just a little bit. but kent conrad really has been a leader, but he is leaving. so that adds to part of the problem here. he can do all the good work, but at least he's focused on the lame duck. there are too many members totally in denial about the fiscal cliff. >> who are in total denial. my thing, if you get this passed
which is to agree on a plan that will save at least $4 trillion off deficits and debt over the next ten years. i'm actually pushing for $5 trillion, because i'd like to actually balance the budget. >> all right. senator, thank you very much. we are rooting for you to get this done and get it done right. he ended with a key number. he wants to cut $4 trillion. that's the same as simpson/bowles. simpson/bowles came around last time, didn't pass, debt ceiling crisis. it feels like a kick in...
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the ryan plan doesn't ask the wealthiest to contribute one pen to deficit reduction. they ask everybody else to contribute which is why it does hit easterns on medicare and it hi kid's education budgets and middle income taxpayers. >> listen to this exchange that was caught on tape last year by abc news between paul ryan and former president bill clinton. listen to this. it's fascinating. >> paul ryan. how are you in. >> doing great. >> good to see you. >> good to see you too. >> the democrats -- [inaudible]. . >> this is going to sink into paralysis. we want to put ourselves out there, but you have it get out there and got to get this thing moving. >> you don't want to talk about it? >> good, thanks. >> sounds like they were equally frustrated in that conversation. i don't know if you could hear it as well as i could. what did you think? >> the reality is that the democrats have put forward a number of proposals to modernize medicare. we just have a very different way of doing it. our way said we need to put more focus on the value of care provided as opposed to the
the ryan plan doesn't ask the wealthiest to contribute one pen to deficit reduction. they ask everybody else to contribute which is why it does hit easterns on medicare and it hi kid's education budgets and middle income taxpayers. >> listen to this exchange that was caught on tape last year by abc news between paul ryan and former president bill clinton. listen to this. it's fascinating. >> paul ryan. how are you in. >> doing great. >> good to see you. >> good to...
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there was a deficits don't matter. deficits do matter. i think my focus is basically on manufacturing jobs. that's where i'm at. by the way, today -- >> you're here before you go to the airport, yeah? >> yeah. this is a great day. we've been working on these megaflex blitzes. so i'm going out with a whole team from customs and border protection and for the eighth month in a row we're going to be opening thousands of packages from china to check for things like counterfeits, controlled substances, and agricultural violations. and john, it's absolutely frightening what we've seen across the ports of entry coming in. we get a double digit hit rate. we get a million packages coming in by air from china every day. if we're getting more than 10% hit rate for things like counterfeits, 100,000 americans a day are being potentially harmed by this. defrauded or actually in some cases like child car seats which are counterfeits. those things kill. >> that's a big part of your job. how much of your job or what's your role been in recent weeks and mon
there was a deficits don't matter. deficits do matter. i think my focus is basically on manufacturing jobs. that's where i'm at. by the way, today -- >> you're here before you go to the airport, yeah? >> yeah. this is a great day. we've been working on these megaflex blitzes. so i'm going out with a whole team from customs and border protection and for the eighth month in a row we're going to be opening thousands of packages from china to check for things like counterfeits,...
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the deficit. not the budget. the deficit. $350 billion. my treasury department is planning to pay down the national debt this quarter which never happened under my predecessor. not once. not once. unlike my predecessor, the deficit has gone down both years i've been here. that is not an abstraction. it matters. it matters to families. because reducing the deficit is one of the main ways we can ease inflationary pressures. look, the bottom line is this. americans have a choice right now between two paths. reflecting two different sets of values. my plan attacks inflation and grows the economy by lowering costs for working families, giving workers well-deserved raises, reducing the deficit by historic levels, and making big corporations and the wealthiest americans pay their fair share. the other path is the ultra maga plan. put forward by congressional republicans. to raise taxes on working families. lower the income of american workers. threaten sacred programs, americans count on like social security, medicare and medicaid. and give break
the deficit. not the budget. the deficit. $350 billion. my treasury department is planning to pay down the national debt this quarter which never happened under my predecessor. not once. not once. unlike my predecessor, the deficit has gone down both years i've been here. that is not an abstraction. it matters. it matters to families. because reducing the deficit is one of the main ways we can ease inflationary pressures. look, the bottom line is this. americans have a choice right now between...
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and cut the deficit. mitt romney's plan? a new 250,000 dollar tax break for... multi-millionaires. roll back regulations on the banks that cratered the economy. and raise taxes on the middle class. president clinton: they want to go back to the same old... policies that got us in trouble in the first place. president obama: we're not going back, we are moving forward. anncr: forward. you see us, at the start of the day. on the company phone list that's a few names longer. you see us bank on busier highways. on once empty fields. everyday you see all the ways all of us at us bank are helping grow our economy. lending more so companies and communities can expand, grow stronger and get back to work. everyday you see all of us serving you, around the country, around the corner. us bank. >>> welcome back, everybody. you're watching "starting point." protests over an american film and a french cartoon hocking islam's prophet muhammad have turned deadly. overnight protesters torched two theaters in peshawar, pakistan. one man was shot dead, another 25 people hurt. tension is building in o
and cut the deficit. mitt romney's plan? a new 250,000 dollar tax break for... multi-millionaires. roll back regulations on the banks that cratered the economy. and raise taxes on the middle class. president clinton: they want to go back to the same old... policies that got us in trouble in the first place. president obama: we're not going back, we are moving forward. anncr: forward. you see us, at the start of the day. on the company phone list that's a few names longer. you see us bank on...
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first, how the ryan/romney deficit reduction plan compares to the president's own $4 trillion deficit reduction proposal. do they add up? then the pros and cons of paul ryan, what his votes have been on the key issues from afghanistan to abortion to t.a.r.p. and finally, the politics of mediscare, the fear-mongering that both sides do. we're talking about stacking the ryan/romney budget against president obama's own proposal. that's the debate we should be having in this country. what's the best path for us to take? so tonight we're putting the two side by side. first ryan's budget is one of the most sweeping plans ever proposed to cut government spending. and whether romney likes it or not, he now owns it. the plan's made romney a lightning rod. the only way to get our fiscal house in order, he says, is to dramatically shrink the size of government. ryan wants to cut spending by $5.8 trillion over the next ten years. additional revenue he says will come from economic growth. ryan wants to replace the current four tax rates with two, 15% and 25%. but he says he's eliminating unspecifi
first, how the ryan/romney deficit reduction plan compares to the president's own $4 trillion deficit reduction proposal. do they add up? then the pros and cons of paul ryan, what his votes have been on the key issues from afghanistan to abortion to t.a.r.p. and finally, the politics of mediscare, the fear-mongering that both sides do. we're talking about stacking the ryan/romney budget against president obama's own proposal. that's the debate we should be having in this country. what's the...
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higher deficits. chronic unemployment. a president who admits he can't work with congress. >> you can't change washington from the inside. >> but he says he's only had four years. that's all mitt romney needed to turn massachusetts around, cut unemployment, turn the deficit he inherited in to a rainy day fund all with an 85% democratic legislature. some can't live up to their promises. others find a way. >> all right. the basic point he's making is that this president has not been able to really work with republicans during the nearly four years. what do you say about that? >> well, first i want to address mitt romney's record. you know, wolf, i'm from massachusetts. i know what mitt romney's record is in terms of reaching across the aye. there isn't one. you know, he cornered himself off in the state house from every other legislature. >> he did get health care reform passed in massachusetts. >> he did but as you know, wolf -- he did and the train had left that station by the time he got on board. we all know that. you kn
higher deficits. chronic unemployment. a president who admits he can't work with congress. >> you can't change washington from the inside. >> but he says he's only had four years. that's all mitt romney needed to turn massachusetts around, cut unemployment, turn the deficit he inherited in to a rainy day fund all with an 85% democratic legislature. some can't live up to their promises. others find a way. >> all right. the basic point he's making is that this president has not...
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history on the deficit cut the deficit in half, as i said it follows a historic drop of $50 billion last year. a big part of that is corp ratingses are finally going to have to pay something, in 2000, in the year 200055 corporations made $40 billion, god love them as my mother would say, but they paid zero in federal tax, zero in federal tax. guess what, inflation reduction act we made sure they have to pay a minimum of 15% less than you guys pay as union members, less than school teachers, fiefrtders, cops pay, but that # 15% increase in the minimum tax is going to make sure we're in good shape for a long time here. that's all in stark contrast to kevin mccarthy's republican leader of the house of representatives and his fellow maga republicans to say the number one priority is to do the following, by the way if i asked you, can you tell me what the republican platform is? what they're for? i'm not joking. i've been around a long time in public life. republicans used to have platforms, this is what we're for. they can't tell what they're for but they'll make sure they'll tell you w
history on the deficit cut the deficit in half, as i said it follows a historic drop of $50 billion last year. a big part of that is corp ratingses are finally going to have to pay something, in 2000, in the year 200055 corporations made $40 billion, god love them as my mother would say, but they paid zero in federal tax, zero in federal tax. guess what, inflation reduction act we made sure they have to pay a minimum of 15% less than you guys pay as union members, less than school teachers,...
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>> we need to get our debt and deficit under control. >> other than that? >> no, that's the key. >> assuming you do that, what else do you do to maintain america's greatness in the world. >> create jobs and create an environment for jobs. i have a crowd funding bill. it is a mechanism where you can give people up to $1,000, a million dollar total to avoid sec filings and using that as seed money to move forward to create a new set of financing for startup businesses. that's where the jobs are. >> what about my constant nagging problem with a company like apple who sell 3 million new ipads in one day apparently last week with. and yet they still employ massively large sums of people in china than they do in america. why argument is why don't they bring 10% of the work force from china back to america. take the hit. i reckon they sell 4 million ipads next time. >> from the president from apple on. >> what do you think. >> i think you need to make america competitive again. >> shouldn't it be the successful company s -- >> there's a lack of stability. people a
>> we need to get our debt and deficit under control. >> other than that? >> no, that's the key. >> assuming you do that, what else do you do to maintain america's greatness in the world. >> create jobs and create an environment for jobs. i have a crowd funding bill. it is a mechanism where you can give people up to $1,000, a million dollar total to avoid sec filings and using that as seed money to move forward to create a new set of financing for startup...
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they want to talk about deficits. and use that as a way to talk about the economy and where they would take it. >> looks like they've got a good, good relationship. >> yeah. >> it looks like they've energized this campaign. we'll see what happens, gloria. >> this is day one, right? >> we'll see what happens day two, tomorrow. thanks very much. >>> paul ryan's midwestern roots, how his wisconsin hometown shaped his political belie beliefs. that and a lot more straight ahead. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 let's talk about fees. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 there are atm fees. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 account service fees. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 and the most dreaded fees of all, hidden fees. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 at charles schwab, you won't pay fees on top of fees. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 no monthly account service fees. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 no hidden fees. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 and we rebate every atm fee. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 so talk to chuck tdd# 1-800-345-2550 because when it comes to talking, there is no fee. ♪ this is the sound... you feel that? no
they want to talk about deficits. and use that as a way to talk about the economy and where they would take it. >> looks like they've got a good, good relationship. >> yeah. >> it looks like they've energized this campaign. we'll see what happens, gloria. >> this is day one, right? >> we'll see what happens day two, tomorrow. thanks very much. >>> paul ryan's midwestern roots, how his wisconsin hometown shaped his political belie beliefs. that and a lot...
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remember president obama promised to cut the deficit in half in his first term. he hasn't done that he said woe lower family premiums by $2500 a year. they are up by almost $2500. if we can actually talk about the issues, if we can talk about the failed record, the failed policies, the lack of leadership from president obama, i think that will bode very well for our president, mitt romney. >> senator johnson, thank you so much for joining us today. we appreciate your insight. >> have a great day. >> you, too. >>> romney's campaign is hoping that paul ryan will bring with him a much-needed advantage in the midwest and does include his state of wisconsin, we just discussed. up next, a different kind of view from ron kind on whether the democrats can hold onto the state they grabbed in 2008. the all-new cadillac atsng to test the 2.0-liter turbo engine. [ engine revs ] ♪ [ derek ] 272 horsepower. the lightest in its class. the cadillac ats outmatches the bmw 3 series. i cannot believe i have ended the day not scraping some red paint off on these barriers. [ male a
remember president obama promised to cut the deficit in half in his first term. he hasn't done that he said woe lower family premiums by $2500 a year. they are up by almost $2500. if we can actually talk about the issues, if we can talk about the failed record, the failed policies, the lack of leadership from president obama, i think that will bode very well for our president, mitt romney. >> senator johnson, thank you so much for joining us today. we appreciate your insight. >>...
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how do we reduce the deficit? by spending more. so you're not talking about the entitlement reform. you're talking about everything else. you haven't talked about obama care -- >> maybe it is some kind of combination. >> medicare, medicaid, defense. the whole conversation is how do you spend more to save less. >> president obama won the election, but what happens in the next four years? how will the president lead the divided congress? you can get a little taste of it right here. and they had such a contentious campaign. we'll chat with the panel about that straight ahead. >> yea! energy is being produced to power our lives. while energy development comes with some risk, north america's natural gas producers are committed to safely and responsibly providing generations of cleaner-burning energy for our country, drilling thousands of feet below fresh water sources within self-contained well systems. and, using state-of-the-art monitoring technologies, rigorous practices help ensure our operations are safe and clean for our communities and the environment. we're america's natural gas.
how do we reduce the deficit? by spending more. so you're not talking about the entitlement reform. you're talking about everything else. you haven't talked about obama care -- >> maybe it is some kind of combination. >> medicare, medicaid, defense. the whole conversation is how do you spend more to save less. >> president obama won the election, but what happens in the next four years? how will the president lead the divided congress? you can get a little taste of it right...
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he wanted to reduce the deficit. everything was on the table but republicans refused to make a deal. >> kevin madden, what about the republicans? i didn't see any of the candidates, republican candidates standing up and taking a real stance on this either. they were probably like hey, thank god we don't have to touch this. >> like you said, washington right now, it looks like one big pigsty and everything is dirty in this mess. republicans, in large part, recognize that the contours of this debate are playing out in 2012. regardless of what the super committee does, the deficits, spending, tax cuts, the tax rates, all of those are an important part of the debate. you see many of the candidates on the campaign trail talking about the issues and not encumbered by the partisanship here in washington. and that's a good place to be politically. i think the bigger part of this, i think, which is really hard for the president, is that he right now owns a lot of this, because what's baked into the cake is the performance of
he wanted to reduce the deficit. everything was on the table but republicans refused to make a deal. >> kevin madden, what about the republicans? i didn't see any of the candidates, republican candidates standing up and taking a real stance on this either. they were probably like hey, thank god we don't have to touch this. >> like you said, washington right now, it looks like one big pigsty and everything is dirty in this mess. republicans, in large part, recognize that the contours...
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inside the glossy, it says president obama's plan reduces the deficit by more than $4 trillion over the next decade. how he's going to do it, well, that's still a bit of a mystery. of course, the obama campaign did not exactly like our analysis. but they also didn't exactly you disagree with us. and we give them credit for you you you you you you taking the time to talk to us on the phone and for sending us this 30-page document. all right? back to the glossy, though, for a moment. one of the claims we took issue with this is line right here. president obama would commit half of the money saved from responsibly ending wars in iraq and afghanistan to reducing the deficit and the other half to putting americans back to work, rebuilding roads, bridges, runways and schools here in the united states. now, as the president noted earlier on that page, the wars have been purchased on a credit card, borrowed. as we told you, the money that's borrowed to begin with and also money they hadn't planned to spend in the first place. the wars had been scheduled to end. so savings as the president's pla
inside the glossy, it says president obama's plan reduces the deficit by more than $4 trillion over the next decade. how he's going to do it, well, that's still a bit of a mystery. of course, the obama campaign did not exactly like our analysis. but they also didn't exactly you disagree with us. and we give them credit for you you you you you you taking the time to talk to us on the phone and for sending us this 30-page document. all right? back to the glossy, though, for a moment. one of the...
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that means running deficits for the next eight years. only thing i've seen on his website is $500 billion in cuts in the year 2016. that's not dealing with the debt for another four years. >> if we can move faster and further, we certainly will, but governor romney wanted to propose something he thought we could do. >> he's going to close loopholes to do it. you and i are both familiar are w the studies that say that's not possible or tough to do. let's just say in order to get there, he can't cut by to 20%. he has to cut by 10. maybe 4. would he adjust that promise? >> well, he's certainly willing to talk. when you do tax reform, what you do is you establish the basic parameters, which he's done in this proposal. you get everybody together and you knock heads. if it's not what everybody wants, is he going to say absolutely no? he's not going to raise taxes, but if he can't get exactly the tax cut hemts, is he going to say no. there are some things he's going to insist on, but be open to talking as well. >> thanks so much for taking the
that means running deficits for the next eight years. only thing i've seen on his website is $500 billion in cuts in the year 2016. that's not dealing with the debt for another four years. >> if we can move faster and further, we certainly will, but governor romney wanted to propose something he thought we could do. >> he's going to close loopholes to do it. you and i are both familiar are w the studies that say that's not possible or tough to do. let's just say in order to get...
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on trade, our trade deficit now nearly $800 billion a year. we have a deficit. think of it, of almost $800 billion a year. you really say who's negotiating these deals? is a chronic drag on the growth and destroyer of jobs and wealth in our country. in the month of october alone our nation racked up more than $40 billion in trade deficit. 40 billion. including more than a $30 billion trade deficit with china alone. all right? think we're doing a good job in negotiating? i don't think so. how many business people do we have in this audience that could have been done a slightly better job of negotiating? yeah, you can. north carolina's lost nearly half of its manufacturing jobs. america has lost 70,000 factories. think of it. 70,000 factories since joining the world trade organization. think of it. so china joins the world trade organization and since that time we've lost so much. 70,000 factories. we're living through the greatest jobs theft in the history of the world. there's never been one like what happened in the country. we stopped a little because we just
on trade, our trade deficit now nearly $800 billion a year. we have a deficit. think of it, of almost $800 billion a year. you really say who's negotiating these deals? is a chronic drag on the growth and destroyer of jobs and wealth in our country. in the month of october alone our nation racked up more than $40 billion in trade deficit. 40 billion. including more than a $30 billion trade deficit with china alone. all right? think we're doing a good job in negotiating? i don't think so. how...